Dutch PSPs reportedly recalled over custom firmware fears

[watupgroupie]

the only thing that i have in mind that is the umd suppose to be copy protected... so why so easy to rip them????? that i have no clue how it goes

I think because at the time they didn't think that there handheld would be hacked so easily allowing easy dumping of the disks. The only other way i could see them being dumped is if you replicated a umd drive to a pc but you'd have to be pretty deparate to do that.

[dylandangles]

When they said "unflashable" they meant "newest firmware version".
You can't just write to the flash on any ol' psp. You need to have a Psp with an exploitable firmware.
You aren't supposed to be able to flash your psp in the first place.

How would they even make one "unflashable"? Make flash0 read-only? What do you think the past 10 firmwares have done? We have found ways around that via exploits.

And its impossible to make an "unflashable firmware". Partly because that would defeat the purpose of having an upgradeable firmware.

[Tesseract]

The amusing bit to this is that they're trying so hard to foil OE firmware when they've already had the upper hand on that fight since 3.03.

I can understand the extra measures if we had downgraders for the official firmware as quickly as we tend to have OE firmwares, but that hasn't been the case for a while....

[JosephStalin]

All they really need to do is fill the flash0, so theres no space for the OE firmware

[acn010]

ha ha ha, great idea, hope they work with that method JosephStalin

[steve520]

be afraid......be very afraid muhahahahaha!!!!

[carpy]

edit from wraggster

Be wary, not everything maxconsole posts is true and sometimes just totally made up to get visitors, however time will tell.

and every single thing they post, you steal and claim as your own without sourcing them.

[irishwhip]

hmm, low blow on maxconsole. the source for the story is clearly engadget, not max

[Tesseract]

All they really need to do is fill the flash0, so theres no space for the OE firmware

From what I understand, this would not be wise. The PSP uses the flash0 for other operations as well (as is evidenced by a semi-brick if you fill it up too much), so intentionally filling it up ahead of time would be a Bad Idea.

hmm, low blow on maxconsole. the source for the story is clearly engadget, not max

Close. EnGadget claimed Maxconsole as a source for the story they published on their site.